A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.​

Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.

Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.

When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.

这是一部有关史前人类霍比特人的故事。弗拉多为了拯救族人，前往火焰山的厄运山口，要摧毁魔戒的魔力，使人类免受黑势力的奴役…… 《魔戒王三部曲》是英国牛津大学中世纪英国文学教授J.R.R.托尔金于1954年推出的系列作品。它一经问世就在英美两国乃至全世界掀起了轩然大波，随即成为西方奇幻文学殿堂的经典之作，并影响了好几代的读者。至今《魔戒王三部曲》已被译成25种不同语言，全球销售量达9000万册以上。托尔金教授创造的中古大地魔幻社会，结构精密，住着不同的种族，而哈比族少年佛洛多被卷入一场争夺魔戒的正邪大战，凭着勇气和友人的帮助，终于战胜黑暗力量。 故事由魔戒持有者佛罗多展开，他在不知情的状况下继承了一枚戒指，却发现这枚戒指是魔王迟迟不能统治世界的关键。他也陷入了善恶双方争夺的处境中。几经波折，他才得知必须携带魔戒深入魔王的领土，才能在末日火山摧毁这一切邪恶的根源。 于是，在巫师甘道夫的主导下，由精灵、矮人、哈比人、游侠和人类组成了魔戒远征队，试图护卫佛罗多前往魔王的老巢。

《魔戒王三部曲》是英国牛津大学中世纪英国文学教授J.R.R.托尔金于1954年推出的系列作品。它一经问世就在英美两国乃至全世界掀起了轩然大波，随即成为西方奇幻文学殿堂的经典之作，并影响了好几代的读者。至今《魔戒王三部曲》已被译成25种不同语言，全球销售量达9000万册以上。托尔金教授创造的中古大地魔幻社会，结构精密，住着不同的种族，而哈比族少年佛洛多被卷入一场争夺魔戒的正邪大战，凭着勇气和友人的帮助，终于战胜黑暗力量。 故事由魔戒持有者佛罗多展开，他在不知情的状况下继承了一枚戒指，却发现这枚戒指是魔王迟迟不能统治世界的关键。他也陷入了善恶双方争夺的处境中。几经波折，他才得知必须携带魔戒深入魔王的领土，才能在末日火山摧毁这一切邪恶的根源。 于是，在巫师甘道夫的主导下，由精灵、矮人、哈比人、游侠和人类组成了魔戒远征队，试图护卫佛罗多前往魔王的老巢。 本故事随着讲述而扩展开去，直至演绎成一部“魔戒大战”史。其中还多次涉及到更古远的时代。在一九三七年《霍比特人》一书杀青，尚未付柞之前，我就开始写作续篇，但中途一度搁笔，原因是我想先将上古时代的神话与传说收集完整，并理出头绪来，那几年里这些神话传说已渐具眉目。我本来只是出于自己的爱好而从事这项工作的，不甚指望别人会对此产生兴趣，更何况其灵感基本来自语言学，是为了给小精灵语言提供必要的“历史”背景。 为此我请教了别人，他们的意见使我的不甚指望变成了毫不指望；只是读者们想知道更多的有关霍比特人及其历险的故事，受此鼓励，我又书归正传，提笔续写。但一落笔就不由自主地将故事带到更古老的世界，尚未提及它的起源与发展，就讲述其结局与消亡了。这一过程在写作《霍比特人》时就已见端倪。在那本书里，已有几处提到更古老的事物，如埃尔隆德、冈多林、高种小精灵、妖魔，还略微提到了一些半路冒出来的人与物，他们比表面看上去更鲜明，或更幽深，或更隐秘，比如杜丁、莫利亚、刚多尔夫、索隆、魔戒。发现这些人和物的内在意义及其与古代历史的关系，便揭示了第三纪及其高潮——“魔戒大战”。

《魔戒王三部曲》是英国牛津大学中世纪英国文学教授J.R.R.托尔金于1954年推出的系列作品。它一经问世就在英美两国乃至全世界掀起了轩然大波，随即成为西方奇幻文学殿堂的经典之作，并影响了好几代的读者。至今《魔戒王三部曲》已被译成25种不同语言，全球销售量达9000万册以上。托尔金教授创造的中古大地魔幻社会，结构精密，住着不同的种族，而哈比族少年佛洛多被卷入一场争夺魔戒的正邪大战，凭着勇气和友人的帮助，终于战胜黑暗力量。 故事由魔戒持有者佛罗多展开，他在不知情的状况下继承了一枚戒指，却发现这枚戒指是魔王迟迟不能统治世界的关键。他也陷入了善恶双方争夺的处境中。几经波折，他才得知必须携带魔戒深入魔王的领土，才能在末日火山摧毁这一切邪恶的根源。 于是，在巫师甘道夫的主导下，由精灵、矮人、哈比人、游侠和人类组成了魔戒远征队，试图护卫佛罗多前往魔王的老巢。 本故事随着讲述而扩展开去，直至演绎成一部“魔戒大战”史。其中还多次涉及到更古远的时代。在一九三七年《霍比特人》一书杀青，尚未付柞之前，我就开始写作续篇，但中途一度搁笔，原因是我想先将上古时代的神话与传说收集完整，并理出头绪来，那几年里这些神话传说已渐具眉目。我本来只是出于自己的爱好而从事这项工作的，不甚指望别人会对此产生兴趣，更何况其灵感基本来自语言学，是为了给小精灵语言提供必要的“历史”背景。 为此我请教了别人，他们的意见使我的不甚指望变成了毫不指望；只是读者们想知道更多的有关霍比特人及其历险的故事，受此鼓励，我又书归正传，提笔续写。但一落笔就不由自主地将故事带到更古老的世界，尚未提及它的起源与发展，就讲述其结局与消亡了。这一过程在写作《霍比特人》时就已见端倪。在那本书里，已有几处提到更古老的事物，如埃尔隆德、冈多林、高种小精灵、妖魔，还略微提到了一些半路冒出来的人与物，他们比表面看上去更鲜明，或更幽深，或更隐秘，比如杜丁、莫利亚、刚多尔夫、索隆、魔戒。发现这些人和物的内在意义及其与古代历史的关系，便揭示了第三纪及其高潮——“魔戒大战”。 三大戒指归属天下小精灵诸君， 七大戒指归属石厅小矮人列王， 九枚戒指属于阳寿可数的几人， 还有一枚属于高居御座的黑魁首。 莫都大地黑影幢幢。 一枚戒指统领众戒，尽归罗网， 一枚戒指禁锢众戒，昏暗无光。 莫都大地黑影幢幢。

Amazon.com The ground shifts repeatedly beneath the reader's feet during the course of Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, a riff on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in the high-octane world of rock & roll. Readers get their first clues early on that the universe Rushdie is creating here is not quite the one we know: Jesse Aron Parker, for example, wrote "Heartbreak Hotel"; Carly Simon and Guinevere Garfunkel sang "Bridge over Troubled Water"; and Shirley Jones and Gordon McRae starred in "South Pacific." And as the novel progresses, Rushdie adds unmistakable elements of science fiction to his already patented magical realism, with occasionally uneven results. Rushdie's cunning musician is Ormus Cana, the Bombay-born founder of the most popular group in the world. Ormus's Eurydice (and lead singer) is Vina Apsara, the daughter of a Greek American woman and an Indian father who abandoned the family. What these two share, besides amazing musical talent, is a decidedly twisted family life: Ormus's twin brother died at birth and communicates to him from "the other side"; his older brothers, also twins, are, respectively, brain-damaged and a serial killer. Vina, on the other hand, grew up in rural West Virginia where she returned home one day to find her stepfather and sisters shot to death and her mother hanging from a rafter in the barn. No wonder these two believe they were made for each other. Narrated by Rai Merchant, a childhood friend of both Vina and Ormus, The Ground Beneath Her Feet begins with a terrible earthquake in 1989 that swallows Vina whole, then moves back in time to chronicle the tangled histories of all the main characters and a host of minor ones as well. Rushdie's canvas is huge, stretching from India to London to New York and beyond--and there's plenty of room for him to punctuate this epic tale with pointed commentary on his own situation: Muslim-born Rai, for example, remarks that "my parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear.... You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again." Despite earthquakes, heartbreaks, and a rip in the time-space continuum, The Ground Beneath Her Feet may be the most optimistic, accessible novel Rushdie has yet written. --Alix Wilber--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

《魔戒》这是一部有关史前人类霍比特人的故事。弗拉多为了拯救族人，前往火焰山的厄运山口，要摧毁魔戒的魔力，使人类免受黑势力的奴役……。《魔戒王三部曲》是英国牛津大学中世纪英国文学教授J.R.R.托尔金于1954年推出的系列作品。它一经问世就在英美两国乃至全世界掀起了轩然大波，随即成为西方奇幻文学殿堂的经典之作，并影响了好几代的读者。至今《魔戒王三部曲》已被译成25种不同语言，全球销售量达9000万册以上。托尔金教授创造的中古大地魔幻社会，结构精密，住着不同的种族，而哈比族少年佛洛多被卷入一场争夺魔戒的正邪大战，凭着勇气和友人的帮助，终于战胜黑暗力量。